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Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System
Episode 421
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and anti-racism. Isa…
5 years, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Toobin Explores Donald Trump’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors”
Episode 420
The Mueller Report documented enough crimes and scandals in Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and in his Administration to sink the career of any …
5 years, 7 months ago
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions
Episode 419
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing civil unres…
5 years, 7 months ago
Black Italians Fight to Be Italian
Episode 418
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law since 1868, wi…
5 years, 7 months ago
Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools
Episode 417
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to rebound. Emily …
5 years, 7 months ago
Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
Episode 416
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was cancelled, even outdoor…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
Episode 415
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on b…
5 years, 7 months ago
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
Episode 414
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the…
5 years, 8 months ago
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
Episode 413
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assau…
5 years, 8 months ago
The State of the Biden Campaign
Episode 412
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now he faces …
5 years, 8 months ago